Rafael Camara has revealed which F1 race quantity he’s going to make use of after information of his promotion to grand prix racing with Haas was confirmed.
The Brazilian was confirmed earlier this week as a full-time race driver with the group from the 2027 season, and can change Esteban Ocon who’s departing after two seasons.
While his team-mate will not be but formally confirmed, Oliver Bearman is predicted to remain for a 3rd season, with Camara, who’s main the FIA F2 standings, confirming which quantity he’ll run on his first Haas F1 automobile.
Camara will use #50 when he debuts within the Bahrain Grand Prix in March, turning into the primary driver to decide to decide on the quantity as their private decide.
Curiously, the #50 was utilized by Bearman himself throughout his two substitute appearances for Haas in 2024 in Azerbaijan and Sao Paulo, deputising for the banned after which sick, respectively, Kevin Magnussen.
However as Bearman was solely a substitute driver, the #50 was then Haas’s reverse quantity and never Bearman’s private alternative, which turned out to be #87 when he debuted full-time in 2025.
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Camara explains his alternative
When requested by media, together with RacingNews365 why he had opted to selected #50, Camara defined his alternative.
“We’ll be utilizing the #50,” he stated.
“Clearly the primary alternative can be #5, however Gabriel [Bortoleto] is utilizing that, however it will likely be #50 as my birthday is 05/05/2005, and I spoke with my dad, and he stated that I am 50.
“It is smart with the birthday date, so I will be utilizing that one for subsequent 12 months.”
With the information of Camara’s announcement, it leaves simply 5 seats to be publicly introduced for the 2027 grid.
These are at Mercedes, the place is is unthinkable that both George Russell or world champion-elect Kimi Antonelli can be dropped, at Racing Bulls the place Liam Lawson and Arvid Lindblad are hoping they are not dropped for Camara’s F2 rival Nikola Tsolov and the second Haas seat, which is predicted to be Bearman’s as soon as once more.
Within the desk under, we have listed the race numbers for each driver confirmed up to now for the 2027 season, lacking out the 5 seats talked about above.
For Lando Norris, Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, and Lewis Hamilton, as they’re all nonetheless mathematically in title rivalry, they may all nonetheless win and elect to alter to the #1 in 2027 – though Hamilton didn’t do that when successful titles at Mercedes, staying together with his #44.
Within the case of the reigning champion Norris, he’ll revert to his earlier race variety of #4 for 2027, having misplaced the proper to hold the #1, barring a unprecedented comeback.
